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L? v PERCY. . r Onc&'there was a young blood who considered himself the en tire Roquefort. .Dad was there with a perfectly healthy "bank'roli and at "times he slipped the kid enough to wear s'llk ribbons for shoe laces and clothes of the col leger cut. The youth himself al ways affected brilliant cravats and a powdered expression. He opined that with the ginl folks he coukl neithec. be beaten nor tied. One. lpolTatProsperous Percy was eriojlgh, so-,he. though tT His grandeur! would 'drive them batty. v It so happened that one fair thing was "nuts" over Percy, She was a young" deaf,1 not pretty; enough tossing in the chorus, tut . when she "dolled" herseff up no- body would stop and say, "pee, there goes a homely moll." And, besides, Gwendoliireshad 200,000 bucks in her own right and may be -a couple of mote in her left. She proposed to Percy one ,evening, but ithe young man waved her away. "'He'wanted a jMllian Russell fo looks with a Pierpont Morgan bank account nothing else would do at all.x At vany rate,the bride of the perfect little scamp must have a roll as bigas the old man was-spending. So .with a crisp goodby Percy cranked the spark and went over the hill on his high. -. It so happened thaf-ai few days after some tout grabbed Percy's old man and -sent him in against a -wheat deal. Persy Sr. blowed" the roll and Percy Jn was reduced from the Maryland chafing dishes to the ham and egg counter. This would not have been so bad were it not for the fact that about the only work" the- young man had grains enough to do was,to sling a pick. Then the youth remembered Gwendoline. She wasn't a half bail looking girl and that 200 thou looked better thanvtwo-fifty per day. Perqy called on her that night, Qnly to find that she 'had eloped the day before with the milkman. Percy finally wound up by hitching to his widowed boajding house keeper (aged 58) to insure-- himself agamstvor-k and posybje starvation. . """"Moral.--You can't drink soup with a fork. , J o p t- FORGOT IT. WtkCtM -u have She What excuse for ydurcondition ? He; P had a good un, can't think .what it .was you but I V